Darrel Ray

Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].

— Darrel Ray

“Deprivation or overstimulation, combined with fear and peer pressure, are the conversion tools of many religions. A loud Pentecostal service, an Evangelical…

— Darrel Ray

We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between…

— Darrel Ray

“What did you know about sex before you started engaging in intercourse? That is rhe level of knowledge a priest has unless…

— Darrel Ray

Islam has some of the best defenses against other god viruses and has the potential to be more parasitically aggressive when consolidating…

— Darrel Ray

Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of…

— Darrel Ray

Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may…

— Darrel Ray

“Religion is evolving to survive but is losing the battle in many regions, largely because of the Internet. Sexual information is far…

— Darrel Ray

Education is the key to perpetuation of the [god] virus for the Taliban, Baptist or Catholic. If the virus cannot control public…

— Darrel Ray

“the more educated and financially successful, the less religious a person is likely to be.”

— Darrel Ray

“It is not very romantic, but reality is a better basis for building a relationship than fantasizing about a soul mate or…

— Darrel Ray

The lancet fluke (Dicrocoelium) infects the brain of ants by taking control and driving them to climb to the top of a…

— Darrel Ray

“The abstinence-only programs and reclaimed-virginity movement make men and women ashamed of being sexual creatures before or outside of marriage.”

— Darrel Ray

Some people who experience a religious conversion seem to undergo a personality change. They can be quite congenial and easygoing when talking…

— Darrel Ray

Jesus must have been married to have been called a rabbi.

— Darrel Ray

Fundamentalism in most of its forms is the active creation of antibodies to some threatening [god] virus. As long as threatening religions…

— Darrel Ray

“The church may update its techniques and methods, but it is always in service of the institutional organism. This is one of…

— Darrel Ray

All religions have something to say about sex, and it rarely coincides with scientific knowledge of sex and sexuality.

— Darrel Ray

Fundamentalist groups like Christian Embassy have infiltrated the very top of the U.S. military and gained positions of influence in the Pentagon.

— Darrel Ray

Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add…

— Darrel Ray

Many of them [people who escaped religion] recounted both the terror and the relief they felt after leaving religion behind. Terror at…

— Darrel Ray

Once infected, the individual [infected with a god virus] cannot detect major contradictions in his beliefs and behavior. Belief systems become self-evident…

— Darrel Ray

Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern…

— Darrel Ray

Religious people use 10% more pornography than secular people. The biggest consumers of pornography are Utah and Mississippi. All that religious preaching…

— Darrel Ray

Every religion ... has rituals, practices, holy writings or traditions, etc. Nothing like that has ever developed from Atheism. There are no…

— Darrel Ray